>> and she is outraged that the hospital did not notify her or the other patients about the investigation. >> to find out the way we did, that hurts. i had to find out on the news? from family? it's not fair. i've been going to him for 11 years. >> dr. levy committed suicide at his home. patients may never get the answers they want. an explosion and just 14 people and check out these flames.

>> jesse jackson, jr., and his wife will be in federal court tomorrow. they're accused of spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items. now, both have agreed to plead guilty. jackson is charged with conspiracy and his wife's accused of filing false federal tax returns. president obama's obama's campaign to blame congress for sequestration spending cuts continue today at the white house where he urged lawmakers to adopt a temporary fix if they can't find a solution. while the local leaders are out there, calling reporters in today to say how terrible see cress strags will be -- sequestration. blame the other guy. for february, the other guy. they would rather have these cuts go into expect than

closethe tax loopholes for wealthiest americans. >> president obama prefers -- from republican house speaker john boehner, the president offered no credible plan that can pass congress, only more calls for higher taxes. the american public understand the revenue debate is now closed. and when the president says he'll negotiate. >> so my door is open. >> a top aid house majority leader eric canter said president obama has spent more time playing golf with tiger woods than negotiating with congressional republicans. >> and if federal workers are furloughed because of sequestration, local counties get slammed. >> montgomery county alone in terms of its tax base, each day based on our estimates is possibly $500,000. >> and local economies get slammed. prince george's county executive baker. >> ten days of furlough equal

$120 million in lost income for federal employees for the county. >> these cuts are not smart, they're not fair. they will will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment roles. this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> history this time may not repeat itself. in recent history when we have big budget showdowns with big deadlines and big consequences for failure, there has been a last-minute deal or a deal a few minutes after the last minute. this time, there is a growing sequestration that happened with consequences so dire, everybody will be blamings the other guy. derek. >> gary nurenberg. tomorrow the white house is expected to announce tougher message for confronting cyber espionage. there is mounting evidence that a chinese military unit has been stealing all orts of u.s. government data as well as corporate trade secrets. oh, baby. imagine giving birth to two sets of twins at the same time.

meet the lucky couple who hit the baby jackpot. >> whoa. and next, a story every parent needs to see. more and more temps are lurking where teens hang out. they are stealthy and subtle. how on make sure sure your child doesn't end up a victim. 47 today was the high. that's dead on average. but colder air is moving in as we now speak. here's your wakeup weather. heavy coat required. wind chills in the teens at 5:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. and teens and 20s at 9:00 a.m. you get the picture. bundle the kids up at the bus stop. clear skies pretty much 26 to 32 by 7:00. we'll come back and talk about how low the wind chill stays tomorrow a

sex trafficking is not something that just happens abroad and it certainly isn't something that only happens to other people. >> it is booming here in d.c., maryland and virginia. if you have a daughter or a son between the ages of 12 and 18, know that if you're not paying attention to them, the pimps could be, and it could happen in a place where they hang out all the time. debra alfarone has what you need to know straight from a victim who's lived it. >> this guy didn't come on strong. like he didn't call me and talk about sex or running away. >> reporter: for more than half her life, holly austin smith has held a secret. >> everything changed for me.

my whole life changed after that. >> reporter: holly says at 14 she was vulnerable, depressed. it was more than teenage angst. it was at the mall she met a man who would change her lifeforever. >> i just felt special he was calling me out of the crowd and connecting with me. >> reporter: they exchanged numbers and talked every other night for about two weeks. >> what kind of movies do i like? where do i want to go? what do i like to do? it was just a friendship. by the time he started pushing for me to run away, it sounded like a good idea. >> reporter: he promised to take her to a dance club. he took her to a motel in atlantic city. >> there was a woman in the motel room. she was very, very pretty, and he kind of handed me over to her and said, get her ready. >> they took her to the street and sold her body for money. >> the two of them haggled on a price, and she told him to go and get a car and pick me up

directly and take me directly to the hotel room. >> what followed was 36 hours of hell, a mortifying arrest and a lifetime of suicide attempts and secrets. >> when you talk to young kids about this, you can't say human trafficking. you have to say what the real words are. the real word is a pimp. >> reporter: gina is a pioneer. >> hello. >> reporter: since 2008, her nonprofit, courtney's house in d.c. has helped more than 500 local sex trafficking victims. she's part mom, part activist, part cop. >> they look like your children. >> reporter: and all fighter. her goal? to open your eyes. >> if you're not explaining it, a trafficker is explaining it to your child and he's not telling the truth. >> reporter: after 17 years of secrets, holly met tina. you could say she saved her life. >> it was 2009 when i met tina. i didn't even know what happened to me. i thought i had chosen to become a prostitute.

it wasn't until i learned about child sex trafficking that i understood how i was exploited and manipulated. >> we really need to understand it's all races, all colors, all backgrounds. >> reporter: from nice areas and from bad, the target mostly girls age 12 to 14, from a place we all visit. >> they all traffic at one place, that's at the mall. >> reporter: that's why tina makes it her life mission to go undercover and intervene. we can't say which malls or show you her operation. if you're wondering how tina knows so much, she was trafficked, too. she ran away at 14 to her would- be pimp's home. >> there were other girls there. the next process is what everyone goes through and that would be the season process. that is where he had two men come in and rape me. >> reporter: after a year of prostitution, then juvenile detention.

like holly, tina had nowhere to turn. as she got stronger and slowly pulled herself from the life, she helped others do the same. >> they came to my door, trying to bust my windows out to find them. there were no services for anybody. >> reporter: courtney's house was founded in 2008 and she's given victims a voice. >> meeting somebody else, the similar story helps me to realize that i was a victim, and it helped me to feel empowered. >> reporter: tina urges parents to number one, check their teen's phone and check facebook. you should have their password, because that's how traffickers communicate. teens should never hang out without an adult at the mall. also the good news, such a sad, sad story that holly is actually happily married to a microbiologist. she lives in richmond, virginia, and is working hard on writing a book about sex trafficking and also she writes a column in the washington

times community. >> this is great work. it's important work. are these ladies also working with the police to try to help them, to help them understand from the victims' perspective? >> absolutely. >> here's what happens on this side and here's what i'm doing on the advocacy side. >> it's a great question, because both women told me when they were arrested, police didn't understand. they made them feel lease an human. it was a different time. these women felt humiliated. but now tina does talk to police and she tells them exactly how they want to be treated. she helps the victims and actually trains them on what to look for, because who better to know. >> this is so important, because we all send our kids to the mall and think they can go there. we'll pick you up. it will be fine. >> it's a rite of passage. you don't think this will happen. the parents need to know about it. great job, deb. >> thank you so much. thanks to tina and holly. >> absolutely. derek. >> thanks, ladies. let's talk a bit about this

weather, topper, because we enjoyed the warmer temperatures. now we've got to get used to the other things. >> we're going to drop, in terms of temperatures you feel, we'll lose about 20 degrees tomorrow. get ready. here's a live look outside at our live michael & son weather cam. things are pretty quiet right now. clear skies. temps are falling a little bit, not really fast. 42 after a high of 47. if you're planning a forecasting game tonight, the temperature at midnight will more than likely be the high for wednesday. winds out of the northwest at 9. that will drive in colder and drier air tonight and tomorrow. satellite picture radar combined, we'll take you into texas and parts of the four corners. this is going to be our friday, quote, storm. going to be pretty healthy. healthy snows from colorado to kansas and big thunderstorms in texas as we go through the next couple of days. by the time it gets here, it loses a lot of its oomph but it does appear it will give us a little bit of moisture on friday. we think it's all going to be liquid. closer to home, there go our showers from earlier today.

we are left with clear skies and winds are picking up. a very cold start. wind chills will be in the teens tomorrow. keep that in mind. send the kids to the bus stop. grab your sunglasses and heavy coat. windy all day. gusts over 20 miles per hour. pretty much all of wednesday. and even colder wednesday night. good news is, wind chills won't be as low, but that will allow the temps to fall a little bit to lower. overnight, clear, windy, colder. wind chills in the teens. 26 to 32. winds west/northwest about 10 to 20. by morning, plenty of sunshine. mostly sunny. windy and cold. wind chills teens and 20s. by afternoon, plenty of sunshine. mostly sunny, windy and colder. wind chills in the 20s all day. winds northwest at on 10 to 20 with higher gusts. high temperatures only 36 to 40. zone forecast, you will not get out of the mid-20s in oakland. 32 in cumberland.

mid-30s for hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester. downtown, 38. sunshine in the mountains for the coast. 40 in andrews. we're looking around 40 into southern maryland. near 44 in annapolis. there's small craft advisories for the bay and potomac because of those winds. you're up to 70. next three days for now, everything is 9 weather alerts are green. nothing to change your plans tomorrow. sunshine. 38. windy and cold. low 40s on thursday. still kind of cold though. and then showers and chilly on friday. drop temps a little bit, 42. but right now, everything is still liquid. no mix yet. next seven days, pretty good chance of rain and showers lingering into saturday. should be out of here late morning, early afternoon. sunday still looks great. sunshine and low to mid-50s. that's nice. and we get into monday, mid- 50s. tuesday more rain. temperatures in the mid-40s on tuesday. >> flaky winter.

>> yeah, hardly. >> we've got to get over it, right? no doubt, folks, having twins is a lot of work. imagine this. you gave birth to two sets of twins. >> oh, lord. >> just minutes apart. >> oh, lord. >> sounds impossible? meet the houston mom who pulls it off. on valuen ins day she gave birth to two sets of identical healthy twin boys. she? her husband still can't believe it. >> when we got to the doctor's office he was quick to say right away, you have four. of course, i just couldn't believe it. if i wasn't already laying down on that table i would have been on the floor. >> who can blame her? they just wanted a sibling for their 2-year-old son. they got a lot more. if you're wondering, they did this the old-fashioned way. no fertility drugs at all. they really did hit the jackpot. the odds of having two sets of identical twins one in 70 million. now they need to hit the jackpot again to feed them. >> play the lottery. >> with all this technology, nobody saw? >> right, on an ultrasound. >> nobody saw anything? >> i guess -- who knows?

>> it's a wonderful blessing. that's all. >> as long as you don't start thinking about the college costs. we've got sports news tonight. lots of great news going on. plus the nationals, they stood by their man, but now it appears gonzalez may be in the clear. the latest on the investigation into performance enhancing drugs. plus, can maryland keep up the momentum from their big upset over duke? sports is next.

aside from talk of baseball, the biggest news coming out of viera, florida, spring training are allegations against pitcher gio gonzalez that claim he used performance enhancing drugs. now it seems gio may be off the hook. according to an espn report he was a client at a clinic in south florida but the substances he received were not those banned by major league baseball. gonzalez repeatedly denied using p.e.d.es. of course the league is still investigating.

spring training against the mets. you can see that game right here on wusa 9. with just a handful of games left everyone is a must win for teams like maryland. they got their big win over duke on saturday but the key tonight was avoiding that dreaded let down. doesn't unfortunately that's exactly what we got. things started off well for the terps thanks to this guy. his third 3 in a row. the eagles come back though. nice feed to wells. we are all tied up. but in the end, the eagles had just a bit more less in the tank than maryland. boston college wins this one 69- 58. virginia taking on second ranked miami. what a game this was. 11 seconds to go. game tied at 50. sadly, reggie johnson opened underneath. the hurricanes get a big steal off the inbound and hold on to win 5-4. they have now beaten every team in the scc during his two seasons at miami.

ravens receiver torrey smith in the house to watch the wizards. bradley beale back in the starting lineup for the first time since injuring his wrist. he had 25 points. wiz had no answer for rudy gay. he was on fire from short and long range. one handed jam and then a little later, nice pass. gay for 324 in the night. toronto wins this one by 8. john wall tonight had just 9 points. >> we just really never got into a flow, rhythm, you know, all night long really. and we pay for it. >> it appears robert griffin, iii's number one target, pierre garcon, will avoid surgery on his toe this offseason. the second toe on his right foot gave him problems all season long. but doctors say he's feeling just fine and he will rehab it instead building the muscles

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